WOMAN DIES IN WINNETKA CROSSWALK FATALITY 3RD PEDESTRIAN DEATH.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Staff Writer WINNETKA - A woman hurrying through a crosswalk to flag down a bus was hit and killed by a pickup truck Thursday - marking the third pedestrian death in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. in as many days, police said. Investigators withheld the woman's identity until her family could be notified about the 12 p.m. incident. The pickup truck driver was not cited. ``She caused her demise by all accounts of witnesses,'' said Detective Jim Deaton of the LAPD's Valley Traffic Division. ``You're not going to win against a 3,000-pound bullet.'' She was crossing southbound on De Soto de So·to , Hernando or Fernando 1496?-1542. Spanish explorer who landed in Florida in 1539 with 600 men and set out to search for the fabled riches of the north. Avenue at Roscoe Boulevard against a red light and waving for a bus, said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police Sgt. Paul Modrell of the Valley Traffic Division. A pickup truck driver was headed eastbound on Roscoe Boulevard on a green light when he hit the woman and then sideswiped a bus, police said. Her death marks the third pedestrian in the Valley killed in traffic this week - and so far this year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. statistics. During the same time period last year, two pedestrians were killed. On Tuesday, 7-year-old Destiny Driver of Van Nuys was hit and killed by a car while walking home from school on Magnolia The School on Magnolia was an alternative high school in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1971 as the Friends School in Cleveland, and its association with the Religious Society of Friends continued through 1975, at which point the board of the local Friends meeting decided that Boulevard in Sherman Oaks about 5:40 p.m. The driver, identified as Nama Shimoni, 30, of Encino, said she was blinded by the bright sun and did not see the girl, detectives said. ``It's a very tragic accident,'' Deaton said. Detectives said the driver was ``very distraught'' and called the girl's parents at home to apologize. She was not cited, but detectives were investigating the collision. The third death occurred about 7:30 p.m. Monday when a 71-year-old man crossed midblock at Burbank Boulevard and Ranchito Avenue in Van Nuys, said Detective Dwight Gillett, of the Valley Traffic Division. The man, whose family had not yet been notified, was wearing sunglasses sunglasses A tinted pair of glasses used to ↓ light arriving at the eye, which are labeled according to the amount of UV light blocked; nonprescription glasses are classified according to use and amount of UV radiation blocked Sunglasses after sunset, which police said may have prevented him from seeing the car before it hit him. The driver of the car was a nurse and tried unsuccessfully to help the man, Gillett said. |
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